A trendy new bar offering an array of incredible rum-based cocktails has opened its doors.

More than 200 people enjoyed a launch night party at Rumba, in Swan Bank, Congleton.

The venue has been given a complete facelift and bears little resemblance to its previous incarnation as the old Maskery pub.

And drinkers can try a range of different flavoured rums and boozy cocktails topped off with Mr Whippy ice cream.

Owner Chris Carsons, aged 35, of Congleton, said: “Rum is the new gin, 100 per cent.

Rumba has opened in the former Maskery pub in Congleton

“We have got our own rum, which we have made in the Caribbean, then we blend it and get it bottled. It is called Snakepit and it does very well. We’ve got all sorts of flavoured rum, coffee, cola, spice.

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“We also do a lot of cocktails and we have got a Mr Whippy machine, so we can top some of the drinks with ice cream.

"We’ve got a beach bar and people can get a 99-er and an alcoholic cocktail."

The pub has been completely transformed

Rumba is the fourth venue Chris has now taken on.

He said: “We already had a Rumba in Congleton and one in Macclesfield, and I’ve got the bar DV8, across the road from the new Rumba. I saw Maskery was up for sale, it is a lot bigger than our old Rumba in Congleton.